Your flower journey has been a long and winding one. I thought it would be fun to have Steve share a little more about his flower farm, the sunflowers he’s been breeding, and his upcoming seed sale on April 1, 2023. Steve is one of the kindest, most generous people I know and it has been such an honor to get to play a small part in his flower journey. And during the winter months, he shares a lot of really interesting videos about how he utilizes these magnificent birds of prey to combat pests, such as rabbits, on his farm. In addition to being a flower farmer and sunflower breeder, Steve is also a master falconer. After getting to experience Steve’s beautiful creations, it became clear that he was really onto something and we encouraged him to follow the trail so that he could one day release his beauties out into the world. Two short weeks later Steve Kaufer flew out to the farm to meet us and we ended up planting a huge field of his amazing sunflowers to trial here in our climate. His sunflowers were like nothing I had ever seen before and I immediately picked up the phone. A few years ago we got an email out of the blue from a flower farmer in Wisconsin who sent a picture of some sunflowers he had been breeding and wanted to see if we might be interested in offering them.
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Bror was supposedly the model for Hemingway's In 1914 Blixen married herĬousin Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, and went with him to Kenya, where Many of her early writingsĪppeared under the pseudonym Osceola. The Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen, and also studied in England, Throughout her life Blixen's outlook and manner wereĪt early age, Blixen showed an artistic inclination. She spent her childhood on the family estate in Whose adventuresome spirit and storytelling talents influenced deeplyīlixen's imagination. Westenholz Dinesen, and the writer and army officer Wilhelm Dinesen, 'That,' he said, 'that, Madame, is a risk which the artists and the priests of this world have to run!'īaroness Karen Blixen was born in Rungsted, Denmark, into a The Cardinal looked up, met her eyes and smiled very gently. 'Are you sure,' she asked, 'that it is God whom you serve?' She drew her inspiration from the Bible, the Arabian Nights, the works of Homer, the Icelandic sagas, Boccaccio, Don Quixote,Īnd the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, her great countryman.īlixen's stories have inspired such film makers as Orson Welles and Storyteller (fortællerske) in the traditional, oral sense of the word. Work supernatural elements, aestheticism, and erotic undertones with anĪristocratic view of life. Isak Dinesen, Pierre Andrézel, other pseudonyms Tania Blixen, Osceola, In full Karen Christence Dinesen, Baroness Blixen-Finecke - wrote as A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Parent, along with artist/writer Fernando Ruiz published Die Kitty Die in 2016, which was funded through Kickstarter.ĭan illustrated the 2018 6-part crossover " Archie Meets Batman '66". Sharknado, a tie-in to Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! written by the film's director, Anthony C. In 2015, Parent illustrated the comic Archie vs. Kevin Keller got his own title with the publication of Kevin Keller #1 in 2012. In 2010, Parent introduced the first openly gay character in Archie Comics when he created Kevin Keller in Veronica #202, which he wrote and drew. His writing of the Love Showdown series from 1994 received widespread attention. Biography ĭan Parent is an American comic book artist and writer who began working for Archie immediately after graduation from The Kubert School. He has illustrated Love Showdown, Felix the Cat, Barbie, Disney Adventures, and with Fernando Ruiz, created the comic series Die Kitty Die. Dan Parent is an American comic book artist and writer best known for his work for Archie Comics. My Thoughts: Just In Case is about Identical twins who share nothing in common except for their DNA. But as three days of literally having to walk in each other’s shoes unfold, will the sisters discover they should try to be more like each other after all? Both believe wearing the other’s clothes is going to ruin their chances: Clare’s of getting a promotion and Rosie’s of getting a snog. So both women are horrified when a luggage mix-up means that sensible Clare must attend a company conference with Rosie’s suitcase full of pink, frills and stripper heels, while flamboyant Rosie heads for a friend’s Italian destination wedding with Clare’s case full of suiting and sensible courts. Though they were born within three minutes of each other and spent their childhoods dressed in matching outfits, they’ve grown up to have less in common than Kim Kardashian and the Duchess of Cambridge. Description: Never were there two less similar identical twins than Clare and Rosie Marwood. A turning point when Olivia’s ordered to return to school and must secretly stow Berkeley strains credulity but is suspenseful and triggers an emotional, satisfying climax. Meanwhile, neighbors are preparing to launch a first-ever community circus, an idea Olivia casually mentioned to give Berkeley something fun to contemplate-but never actually expected would materialize. Though Olivia doesn’t credit it immediately, her neighbors are devoted to her too, not least quirky, white schoolmate Bart, self-proclaimed FBI agent, who becomes her steadfast friend. Readers will easily be drawn into Olivia’s experiences, sometimes-bizarre daydreams, and daily disappointments, and they will admire her resilience and fierce devotion to family. She vents, but in a first-person, present-tense voice that’s distinct, colorful, richly imaginative, thoroughly authentic, often hilarious, and frequently heartbreaking. She frequently misses school to watch over her 5-year-old sister, Berkeley, because day care is unaffordable she’s their de facto teacher and she does all household chores. Olivia has more responsibilities than a kid should. Dad’s gone, Mom’s overworked, money’s tight. Twelve-year-old white Olivia enters lotteries and contests hoping for a big payoff maybe her family can leave their trailer park. A down-at-the-heels sweepstakes entrant discovers she’s had good luck all along. It would scare the shit out of me and I would leave my bed running to the living room…Įventually, the hallucinations became a regular part of his life: Like a staring eyeball that I would see with my eyes open or shut sometimes. There were also things that I saw when I closed my eyes that I couldn’t make go away. I could make these things go away very easily. Big, horrible, grimacing, deeply-lined faces with their mouths open, yelling at me silently, moving their mouths rapidly. I’d be lying in bed and I’d see large, silent, rotating faces hovering over the foot of my bed, faces that were very cartoony, actually. That’s why I was unsurprised to find out that many of the drawings actually come straight from Woodring’s dreams and, sometimes, hallucinations, which started when he was young: I read the stories before bed and they gave me CRAZY dreams: Between free-spirited artist Tasha, chatty empty nester Beverly, retired therapist Eleanor, and herself, Vera has hopes that Christmas for the Albright family will be merry, after all-and she may find herself a new family of friends along the way. Vera will have to get a ragtag group of women together in order to fulfill the request. With her mother seriously ill and her father out of town, Fiona enlists Vera's help, and when she finds out her new neighbor is a quilter, she has a special request-a Christmas quilt for Mama. Widowed and recently relocated, she is lonely in her condo-for-one-until little Fiona Albright knocks on her door needing help. But for Vera Swanson, that's not an option this year. Up for my "True to Life Fiction" Newsletter.Ĭhristmas should be celebrated with family. Member: Mystery Writers of America Novelists Inc Sisters in Crime. Career: California State University, secretary and administrator, 1959-77. She would discover the all-consuming raptures of passion when love came to free her questing heart. Genres: Novels, Romance/Historical, Childrens fiction, Young adult fiction. Love’s Avenging Heart (1976) Dancer of Dreams (1984) Casey Farrell Mysteries Books In Order. She would overcome the sadistic beatings, the rapes, the treachery, the crushing humiliation of her circumstances. But Hannah would do more than survive, she would win. After all, she was only a wench, a body to be owned, used or bartered. Her fiery red hair, voluptuous body, and impudently beautiful face would attract men - men of wealth, men of nothing but strength and lust - and she would have to learn to survive amidst their passions and furies. Hannah's sordid life with Quint was soon replaced by long hours toiling as an innkeeper's barmaiden - literally sold into servitude by her stepfather! It was but the beginning of a wild and tumultuous new phase of life that would test Hannah's very soul. Then to find the man and the lover who'd fulfill her dreams. She knew only that she must escape, that must come first. A captive, near-slave to Silas Quint, her brutal stepfather, she lived in squalor, suffering the indignities of poverty and shame. Hannah wondered if her daydreams and nightly fantasies would ever come true. (In fact, she had so many placements that when I picked the book up again after a break in reading, I had trouble remembering where she was.) She also uses dialog extensively, which keeps the read lively.Ī good portion of the book is focused on the abusive foster home in which she lived for 8 months (and returned for an overnight respite visit at a later time!) Multiple maltreatment reports to CPS from teachers and interviews with the children themselves either were not investigated or not taken seriously. The simple facts of her numerous placements, the maltreatment in some of her placements, and the negligence of some of the child protective services (CPS) authorities alone are enough to make a reader understand how angry and desolate she must have felt, and why it took a long time for her to trust her adoptive parents. Rhodes-Courter tells her story in a direct way, using a "show me, don't tell me" approach. Given that this is the first book of a very young author, I was impressed at how good the writing was. This is, in fact, the definition of a consumer product, in contrast to the product that is simply itself and whose makers aren’t fixated on your liking it. The striking thing about all consumer products - and none more so than electronic devices and applications - is that they’re designed to be immensely likable. I’m keenly interested in what he has to say about our devices, our social media, and our neuroses: The fact that he irritates many people pleases me. I’ve found a virtual kinship with Jonathan Franzen in his collected essays. Maybe I’ll just be in a deep reading phase for a while. I’ve been reading good stuff, which is half of what you need to do to write good stuff. I know you’re supposed to finish what you start, but sometimes that’s just a pep phrase, something you tweet with #amwriting for some virtual pats on the back. Maybe it’ll get up and mosey on again, maybe not. |